Program TIFF 2026

September 2007. Fred, who has just moved to Trieste with her father, enrolls in the local Technical High School for her senior year, finding herself as the only girl in an all-male class. She quickly becomes the center of attention, especially for three friends who have been a unit for as long as they can remember....See more details

Kazdoura is a duo formed in Toronto by Syrian vocalist Leen Hamo and Lebanese multi-instrumentalist John Abou Chacra. Their name, meaning “a stroll” in Levantine Arabic, reflects a musical universe at the intersection of Arabic tradition, psychedelia, funk, and soul. Their debut album Ghoyoum surpassed one million streams and earned major recognition in Canada, including the 2026 JUNO Award for Global Music Album of the Year and the Canadian Folk Music Award for Global Roots Album of the Year....See more details

Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralyzed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.

After her parents are transformed into pigs, young Chihiro becomes trapped in a mysterious, magical world inhabited by spirits and monsters. Terrified at first, the little girl slowly discovers a courage she never knew she possessed...

Love, cinema and naivety. They meet randomly in the street: João is unemployed, Clara is a cinema production assistant. They remember each other from film school. She invites him to come along in this film she’s working on. A melancholic comedy about the dynamics of a film crew and about finding your own place.

Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi. The more she becomes the lost girl the more she finds out about the family - and understands that her life is on the line.

This film is not suitable for children   Vermina, a weary elderly mother, wants to find the woman who will bring her son Fabian a little joy: by having sex with him for the first time. So what if Fabian is a mutated beast covered in pus-filled blisters? He also has a soul. And soon Vermina will happen upon the perfect victim: a young mother you would do anything to save her daughter's life.  

Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is experiencing advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interest? If so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination? As Amanda and Martin are forced to make increasingly difficult choices, the repercussions spiral out of their control.

Arrebato (1980), the ultimate cult film of contemporary Spanish cinema, and its enigmatic director Iván Zulueta are bound together by a dark history in which cinema, addiction, and self-destruction become inseparable. The documentary reconstructs the downfall of one of Spanish cinema’s most legendary figures.

Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and fiercely independent professor of English literature, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and undergoes an aggressive experimental treatment. As her condition deteriorates, Vivian is forced to confront loneliness, mortality and the emotional detachment that has shaped both her academic career and personal life.